Charles Spurgeon Commentary Mark 14:7

"For ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can do them good: but me ye have not always." — Mark 14:7 (ASV)

For you have the poor with you always,

If you help them one day, they are poor, and they need help the next. Or if you help them and they depart, departing because they go home to God, other poor people are sure to come, for they will never cease out of the land. For you have the poor with you always.

And whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.

"You can only do this for me during the few days that I will be with you.

Within a week I will be crucified. Forty more days I will be gone from you. Me you have not always."